In the past 17 games, Yankee starters have gone 14-1.

In the past five games, Yankees starters have allowed 12 home runs.

Yankee starters have never won their first 10 decisions in a season.

Yankees starters have an 0-5 record and a 6.20 earned run average since.

Yankees starters have allowed nine home runs in the past four games.

In the past 11 games, Yankee starters are 8-0 with a 2.54 earned run average.

None of the present Yankee starters even has a winning record.

Even if it was a step forward for another one of the Yankee starters with a question mark on his uniform.

But, as it is with Yankees starters in recent times, he demonstrated a sense of the dramatic.

In the first eight games, Yankee starters compiled a 1.51 earned run average.